Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 16:58:11 +0000 From: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 8.2 with pre-built KDE 3.5 package from FreeBSD 7.1 DVD Message-ID: <20130118165811.5b851b3f@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <1358472303.40523.YahooMailNeo@web133203.mail.ir2.yahoo.com> References: <1358472303.40523.YahooMailNeo@web133203.mail.ir2.yahoo.com>
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On Fri, 18 Jan 2013 01:25:03 +0000 (GMT) Georg Reilinger wrote: > As a consequence, I can see myself do two possible things, to have a > system > > running with KDE 3.5 once again: > > 1. Go back to an older release of FreeBSD and install KDE 3.5 from > the > that's pointless > 2. To be honest, I am quite happy with 8.2 and I would like to keep > it for some time to come. In other words, is there a way to keep 8.2 > and still have KDE 3.5 along with it? For example has anyone ever > tried to install a 7.1 pre-built package (KDE 3.5 in this case) on an > 8.2 system? Is that be possible? You can carry on using 3.5 on any current release. The problem is when it's eventually removed from ports, updating other ports may result in dependency problems.
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